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Alexander Pushkin
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
Vladimir Vysotsky
Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
Alexander Suvorov
Russian marshal (1730–1800)
Ivan Krylov
Russian writer (1769–1844)
Alexander Herzen
Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)
Alexander Dugin
Russian political activist and philosopher (born 1962)
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
Alexander Ostrovsky
Russian playwright (1823-1886)
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian philosopher (1853-1900)
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)
Bella Akhmadulina
Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator (1937–2010)
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
Victor Pelevin
Russian author (born 1962)
Denis Fonvizin
Russian writer (1745-1792)
Sergey Mikhalkov
Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
Alexander Radishchev
18th century Russian author and social critic
Bulat Okudzhava
Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924-1997)
Konstantin Paustovsky
Russian writer (1892–1968)
Andrei Voznesensky
Soviet poet (1933-2010)
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Russian linguist (1890-1938)
Elsa Triolet
Russian-French writer (1896–1970)
Alexandr Yakovlev
Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Russian writer and journalist
Leonid Leonov
Russian writer (1899-1994)
Ivan Ilyin
Russian political philosopher (1883–1954)
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Russian Symbolist poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
Alexei Khomyakov
Russian philosopher (1804-1860)
Genndy Tartakovsky
Russian-American cinema and television animator, director and producer
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian television presenter
Lilya Brik
muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Apollon Maykov
Russian poet and translator (1821–1897)
Anton Delvig
Russian journalist and poet (1798-1831)
Pyotr Chaadayev
Russian philosopher (1794-1856)
Agniya Barto
Russian Soviet writer and poet (1901–1981)
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Russian author of Jewish ancestry
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin
Russian-Swiss writer
Boris Barnet
Soviet film director, screenwriter (1902-1965)
Stanislav Markelov
Russian lawyer (1974-2009)
Sergey Solovyov
Russian historian (1820–1879)
Arkady Babchenko
Russian journalist
Kir Bulychev
Soviet Russian science fiction writer and historian (1934–2003)
Boris Polevoy
Soviet writer (1908–1981)
Andrei Sinyavsky
Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher (1925–1997)
M. Gessen
Russian-American journalist and activist
Pavel Filonov
Russian painter and poet (1883-1941)
Yury Glazkov
Soviet cosmonaut (1939-2008)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist (1936–2013)
Aleksei Arbuzov
Soviet playwright (1908-1986)
Marietta Shaginyan
Soviet writer, poet and journalist (1888–1982)
Andrei Amalrik
Russian writer and dissident (1938-1980)
Alexander Kazhdan
Soviet historian and Byzantine Empire specialist (1922-1997)